Job offer

European Commission; France; Sur place; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The European Commission offers a doctoral position in linguistics, focusing on reduced and elliptical structures under expert co-direction. Candidates will engage in crosslinguistic research and scientific events, splitting time between Paris and Chicago. This role is designed for emerging scholars passionate about linguistics and research innovation.

Qualifications

• Candidate must engage in advanced linguistic research with generative approaches.
• Participation in seminars and academic events is required.

Responsabilités

• Conduct research on reduced and elliptical structures in languages.
• Participate in organization of scientific events like conferences.

Connaissances

Crosslinguistic research

Syntax/Semantics

Formation

Ph.D. candidate

Description du poste

Organisation/Company CNRS Department Structures formelles du langage Research Field Language sciences Language sciences » Linguistics Language sciences » Languages Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Country France Application Deadline 9 Jul 2025 - 23:59 (UTC) Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Offer Starting Date 1 Oct 2025 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

The doctoral contract is the result of a collaboration between the SFL laboratory (a joint research unit of the CNRS and Paris 8 University) and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago U.S.A. The doctoral student will spend one term in Chicago and the rest of the time in Paris during each of the three years of the program. Their work will be framed in the context of the Syntax/Semantics team of the SFL laboratory. The doctoral student will participate in the research activities and seminars of this team and contribute to the organization of scientific events such as the RALFe conference, the Chicago Linguistics Society colloquium, and other events related to the study of ellipsis and of reduced structure.

Thesis subject : "Beyond formal registers. Reduced and elliptical structures in written language and colloquial varieties". This Ph.D. candidate will conduct crosslinguistic research on reduced forms, attested and unattested in formal written registers, at the light of generative approaches, under the co-direction of Carlo Cecchetto (CNRS) and Jason Merchant (UChicago). A classical controversy regarding reduced sentences is whether they are generated as small structures, or whether initially they are full sentences that have undergone a process akin to ellipsis. The Ph.D. candidate will reconsider this general debate at the light of findings from structures like reduced participial clauses, VP ellipsis, Right Node Raising, sluicing and special registers like headlines.